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September 2010 User Group Invite

Craig Bedward — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 04:31:11 +0000

September 7th is the next user group meeting.

Topic: Medical Monitor Display - Steven Quint and Alex Chescheir will be presenting a medical monitor display project they are working on. It uses a multi-plot chart similar to one you would see in an emergency room or intensive care.

Pizza! As a special bonus, Steve will be bringing pizza.

This meeting will be at Seneca5, Tuesday September 7th at 6:30.

Check out the LabVIEW Advanced User Group page for more details.

July 2010 User Group Invite

Craig Bedward — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 17:33:40 +0000

July 6th, first day back from 4th of July vacation is the next user group meeting.

Topic: LabVIEW Design Patterns – Producer/Consumer, other demos

This meeting will be at Seneca5, Tuesday July 6th at 6:30.

Please note: We will NOT be serving pizza.

Check out the LabVIEW Advanced User Group page for more details.

May User Group Pictures – Popcorn Tweets

Craig Bedward — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 20:08:12 +0000

A cool contraption, a bunch of geeks, and pizza. What more could you want?

June 2010 User Group Invite

Craig Bedward — Sat, 29 May 2010 05:36:51 +0000

Mark your calendar. First day back from Memorial Day vacation is the next user group meeting.

Topic: LabVIEW Design Patterns – VIG Timer, Producer/Consumer, and more

This meeting will be at Seneca5, Tuesday June 1st at 6:30. We serve pizza, so you can come straight from work.

Check out the LabVIEW Advanced User Group page for more details.

May 2010 NI User Group

Craig Bedward — Sun, 09 May 2010 19:14:01 +0000

Ready, Aim…

This month, Seneca5 will once again be presenting at the quarterly National Instruments LabVIEW User Group.

Description
Seneca5 will be presenting a technical demonstration on vision and motion. Using a Compact Vision System and a Firewire camera, users will interact with a video feed to control an aiming device.

Demonstrates
NI Compact Vision System, IMAQ vision software, servo control
Lunch will be provided by National Instruments

05/11/2010 | 11:30 a.m. – 01:00 p.m.
Manchesters Grill
2121 T.W. Alexander Drive
Morrisville, NC

It is an NI event and lunch will be served, so you do have to register (but its FREE!). Get more information and register here.

You may also be interested…
Seneca5 hosts the regular meeting of the LabVIEW Advanced User Group at our office each month.

May 2010 User Group Invite

Craig Bedward — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 02:15:25 +0000

It’s time again for our monthly LabVIEW user group meeting. The topic this time is “Popcorn Tweets”. Justin Goeres of JKI will be presenting his Rube Goldberg contraption that pops popcorn based on Twitter activity on the word “popcorn”.

If you have ever wanted to write a complicated LabVIEW program to use Lego parts and other miscellaneous hardware to make popcorn based on how much strangers are talking about popcorn on Twitter, this is just the meeting for you!

This meeting will be at Seneca5, Tuesday May 4th at 6:30. We serve pizza, so you can come straight from work.

Check out the LabVIEW Advanced User Group page for more details.

April 2010 User Group Follow-up

Craig Bedward — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 22:28:42 +0000

We had a great meeting discussing motor control of all types. Thanks to all who attended.

Many people offered information on websites and products they have used. I wanted to capture some of them here in case anyone wants to check into them:

Motor drivers for hobby servos

phidgets.com
geckodrive.com
seetron.com/ssc.htm (serial control of 8 hobby servos)
parallax (serial controller that Michael used in his demo)
servocity (good source for hobby servos and accessories)
US Digital (optical rotary encoders)

National Instruments Tools

Other Items

Any additions? Comment them here. This group works best when we share ideas!

April 2010 User Group Invite

Craig Bedward — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:26:17 +0000

It’s time again for our monthly LabVIEW user group meeting. The topic this time is Motor Control with LabVIEW.

This meeting will be at Seneca5, Tuesday April 6th at 6:30. We serve pizza, so you can come straight from work.

Check out the LabVIEW Advanced User Group page for more details.

March 2010 User Group Invite

Craig Bedward — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 06:33:20 +0000

This time we will be looking into the Houston, we have a problem code in detail. This is the cRIO air jet control system that we demonstrated at the National Instruments User Group in February.

We will have a chance to really dig into the details of the program and discuss the ins and outs of FPGA and RT programming on the cRIO. You will also have a chance to program your own control algorithm for the inverted spring pendulum device. Can you stabilize it? Harder yet, can you make it hold at an arbitrary position? It may be harder than you think!

Come with your laptop, your questions, and your idea for a clever algorithm to control two air jets on a spring.

This meeting will be at Seneca5, Tuesday March 2nd at 6:30. We serve pizza, so you can come straight from work.

Check out the LabVIEW Advanced User Group page for more details.

February 2010 User Group Follow-up

Craig Bedward — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 06:01:29 +0000

This month, we presented at the quarterly National Instruments LabVIEW User Group. We had a great turnout! The 27 people that attended crowded the room at Manchester Grill. We had some good food (Thanks NI!) and we had a great time learning about LabVIEW programming on the cRIO FPGA and RT.

Below are pictures of the event and the LabVIEW code for the program that we demonstrated.

We host the regular meeting of the LabVIEW Advanced User Group at our office each month.

See more pictures here

LabVIEW code

FPGA Code: FPGA experiment.zip

RT Code: [JetDemo] RT.v002.zip

Remote Control Code: [Remote] HoustonWeHaveAProblem_LV86.zip